I need every single person to understand how horrible tumblr’s tagging system is

I go into the tag for epilepsy and its all flashing lights. We can’t use our own tag because people without epilepsy fill it up with improper warnings.

Use ‘flashing’ in place of ‘epilepsy’ in your tags. You aren’t warning people of epileptics, you’re warning us of flashing lights. Please please tag properly. Epileptics say this endlessly and constantly and it’s ignored. You are risking lives by doing this.

Here’s proof of what I mean:

[Image ID: a direct message from tumblr user thelovehair. Message reads: "If the following gif gives you a seizure, then you are a clown". Below is pictured the red frame of a quickly flashing red/blue gif with the text " WAH! BULANCE" overlaid]

You could literally KILL SOMEONE. Yes, over the internet.

It's got kid-movie packaging and characters and artwork and is even kidsafe to watch. But there's ambiguities that US audiences don't like in kids' movies. "Good guys" and "bad guys" aren't clear and solid. People change and grow and switch sides.

There is no simple, neat set of rules for "this is how good guys act" and "this is the list of horrible things that only bad guys do."

It's a nuanced movie that looks like it's designed for six-year-old brains. And this is confusing enough that people edge away from it.

Sora’s Journey

Bonus:

I’ve been around for a really long time in various fandoms, and no one ever writes this stuff down. I’ll start. Please add to the list. We can’t expect people to follow “rules” they don’t know exist. 

written with the help of @unbreakablejemmasimmons

Fanart

if you like something, reblog it. Help the artist get their work out there in front of more people. Share the joy that it brought you. 

if you want more of it, support it. This can be via commissions, reblogs, recommending the artist to other people, shouting in the tags, or sending the artist asks/messages. 

if you hate it, keep scrolling. Keep the hate in a message window with a friend, not in the artist’s notes. 

if you want to use it, ask permission. Artwork is beautiful and you want to show it off. But please ask the artist before you throw it into your header or your icon. 

if you use it, give credit. And not just a post where you say “Do you like my new icon? X made it!”. Put it in your blog description, that way when someone rolls around your blog three months from now, they also know where your icon/header came from. 

Fanfic

if you like something, reblog it. Help the author get their work out there in front of more people. Share the joy that it brought you.

if you want more of it, support it. Kudos are fine, but if you want more of the thing you like, you should comment. Subscribe to the story or the author. Send them a message about how much you like what they wrote. 

if you read it, kudos it. Or give it a thumbs up. And this is just if you managed to get all the way to the end. If you finished the story and you actually liked it? Comment and reblog. 

don’t demand content. Be patient. Stories take time. You can encourage without being demanding. Show your love for what’s there without telling them to post more often. 

be gentle with criticism. Some people want it and some people run away from it. If you don’t know what type of person the author is, it’s best not to go there. “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything.”

Fandom

ship and let ship. You love your ship and other people love theirs. No one needs to “win” when we’re all going to end up in tears anyway. 

if you hate it, stay out of the tag. This has two meanings: 1) don’t deliberately put hateful commentary in a tag and 2) if you  hate a tag, don’t go and read through that tag just to make yourself angry

if someone makes you something, appreciate it. Read and comment the fic. Like and reblog the artwork. Pimp it out and tell them how much you loved it. It’s a gift, treat it like one. 

if it’s a gift, put some effort into it. You signed up for that exchange three months ago and now it’s a week before you have to send the gift and you don’t have the time or the inclination to do the thing. Well too bad. Someone out there has been working hard in your gift, so you should do the same for them. 

none of us are “better” than anyone else. We’re all trash for our particular show/film/book/ship/artist/what-have-you. My fave is no better than yours and yours is no better than mine. 

you don’t need to own your yard. you don’t need to own land. that isnt all there is to the land around you. the land around you is your town, your county, your state, your country–when i say ‘care for the land around you’ i do not mean ‘tend your lawn’ i mean ‘research the tribe whose land you are on, research your specific ecoregion, research native species and learn how to make a space for them, pick up trash, pick up litter, get involved with your community, if there is wilderness near you go out and tend it, learn the names of the plants there, learn the language of the tribe, buy native seeds and just throw them in empty lots, learn how to make habitats for native insects and just make them places, you don’t have to do this in the area immediately around you you can do it anywhere just do it please do it just care and encourage others to care’